Chris,
I was wondering is anyone has come across work looking at the emotional response people have to programming?
What emotions are you interested in? This study looked at risk attitude of professional developers as an explanation for coding decisions: http://www.knosof.co.uk/dev-experiment/accu11.html
I have been running some studies with undergrads and looking at the emotion they report they experience and why. I'm hoping to locate this the literature an it is proving quite tricky to search for in digital libraries!
Enjoyment is a much underrated emotion in all work activities (at least for the people who are good at it). -- Derek M. Jones tel: +44 (0) 1252 520 667 Knowledge Software Ltd blog:shape-of-code.coding-guidelines.com Software analysis http://www.knosof.co.uk -- The Open University is incorporated by Royal Charter (RC 000391), an exempt charity in England & Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (SC 038302).
